Many countries consider eighteen-year-olds to be adults, while other countries don’t. What do you think about it? Give your opinion and some relevant examples based on your own experience.

Certainly,

age

of

majority

is

very important issue

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a very important issue

in any society at all times. Meanwhile, countries

do not have unified

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are not unified

approach

for

this

problem. Many countries consider

eighteen

year

olds to be adults.

However

, some countries establish another

age

as maturity. I agree with

global trend

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the global trend

of

majority

age

at

eighteen

, but I understand that

this

issue can have

different

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different approaches

a different approach

approach

. Nowadays law in most countries

install

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installs

sets the

age

of

majority

at

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of

eighteen

. Exactly in

this

age

people get legal rights and duties.

This

approach

is consistent

to

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with

modern life, because in

this

age

people have social, physical, mental and emotional conditions for it. People have a longer life

then

conjunction used in comparatives

than

,

for example

, in

Middle ages

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the Middle ages

, and can

became

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become

adults later.

For instance

, at

eighteen

people usually start their adult life. They go to university or college, have independent home, get

first job

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the first job

a first job

.

Moreover

, people's social positions, moral ideas are formed.

However

, I believe that issue of

age

of

majority

has national, traditional and cultural aspects.

For instance

, in the Faeroe islands

this

age

is fourteen, in Indonesia - fifteen, in Japan - twenty, in Egypt and some States of America - twenty-one. I think that countries can independently establish

this

age

, because it is important

for

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in

the electoral process, military service, marriage. But I am concerned if

age

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the age

of

majority

is too small.

Thus

, in some Islamic and African

countries

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country

girls eight or nine

year

olds can be considered adults, and boys - at the

age

of ten or eleven

year

olds. I believe that

this

approach

prevents protection of children and childhood. In conclusion,

age

of

majority

can be different in countries with different social, cultural and economic conditions. Presently

eighteen

year

old is

common

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a common age

the common age

age

of people maturation.

Besides

, in recent times politicians and sociologists have even considered increasing

this

age

.